Anders Pettersson
10th September 2000, 12:05
Gassho.
Shorinji Kempo Hombu has recently released a new video and a book (the first book of a series of three).
I had the fortune to receive a copy of this book and video from Arai-sensei when he visited Sweden in the beginning of September.
The book is the first in a series of three and contains Goho, the other two books will emphasize on Juho.
It has a short explanation of each technique (only in Japanese) and each technique is shown in a series of photographs from three different directions (10-24 pictures from each direction), each techniques name is also written in romaji (ordinary alphabet). There is also some pages on Shorinji Kempo history (in Japanese).
I think it gives quite a good explanation on each technique even if one don't read Japanese.
The book title is "Shorinji Kempo Goho, profound study with serial pictures". The price for the book is 2500 yen and ISBN is 4-583-03585-3.
The video, which is titled "?!—ÑŽ›Œ?–@‚»‚Ì‹Z–@‚Æ‹³‚¦" ("Shorinji Kempo sono gihou to oshie" which could be translated as "Shorinji Kempo its techniques and teachings") is a short introduction and I must admit that it was a lot better then I expected.
It is currently only available in NTSC format, but for us in Europe most video players today can manage both our PAL system and NTSC.
The video is 37 minutes long and gives an explanation of the different elements in Shorinji Kempo in a very good way. The first time I watched it was together with some new members and although they didn't understand the Japanese they thought it was informative anyway. For kenshi that knows the basic Japanese terms used in Shorinji Kempo I guess you understand quite a lot.
The price for the video is 3800 yen and ISBN is 4-583-04044-X.
I can really recommend this video as well.
You can order both the video and book from Hombu through your Shibu-cho (branch master).
Anders
<A href=?hhttp://www.shorinji-kempo.org/">www.shorinji-kempo.org</A>
Shorinji Kempo Hombu has recently released a new video and a book (the first book of a series of three).
I had the fortune to receive a copy of this book and video from Arai-sensei when he visited Sweden in the beginning of September.
The book is the first in a series of three and contains Goho, the other two books will emphasize on Juho.
It has a short explanation of each technique (only in Japanese) and each technique is shown in a series of photographs from three different directions (10-24 pictures from each direction), each techniques name is also written in romaji (ordinary alphabet). There is also some pages on Shorinji Kempo history (in Japanese).
I think it gives quite a good explanation on each technique even if one don't read Japanese.
The book title is "Shorinji Kempo Goho, profound study with serial pictures". The price for the book is 2500 yen and ISBN is 4-583-03585-3.
The video, which is titled "?!—ÑŽ›Œ?–@‚»‚Ì‹Z–@‚Æ‹³‚¦" ("Shorinji Kempo sono gihou to oshie" which could be translated as "Shorinji Kempo its techniques and teachings") is a short introduction and I must admit that it was a lot better then I expected.
It is currently only available in NTSC format, but for us in Europe most video players today can manage both our PAL system and NTSC.
The video is 37 minutes long and gives an explanation of the different elements in Shorinji Kempo in a very good way. The first time I watched it was together with some new members and although they didn't understand the Japanese they thought it was informative anyway. For kenshi that knows the basic Japanese terms used in Shorinji Kempo I guess you understand quite a lot.
The price for the video is 3800 yen and ISBN is 4-583-04044-X.
I can really recommend this video as well.
You can order both the video and book from Hombu through your Shibu-cho (branch master).
Anders
<A href=?hhttp://www.shorinji-kempo.org/">www.shorinji-kempo.org</A>